HDFS-2576. Enhances the DistributedFileSystem's create API so that clients can specify favored datanodes for a file's blocks. Contributed by Devaraj Das and Pritam Damania.

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HDFS-4721. Speed up lease recovery by avoiding stale datanodes and choosing the datanode with the most recent heartbeat as the primary.  Contributed by Varun Sharma


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